System requirements

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Support reference · reviewed 17 September 2026. These are published specifications, not benchmarks. Recheck Blizzard's page before changing hardware.

System requirements help you prepare a computer for World of Warcraft: Forever. The following summary comes from both platform tabs of Blizzard Support article 386366.

Windows

Component	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10, 64-bit, May 2019 update or newer	Windows 11
CPU	Four cores, 3.0 GHz; Intel Haswell / AMD Ryzen Zen	Eight performance cores, 5.2 GHz boost; Intel Core Ultra Series 2 / AMD Ryzen Zen 5
GPU	DirectX 12, 4 GB; GeForce GTX 10 series / AMD RDNA 1 / Intel Iris Xe2-LPG Lunar Lake	DirectX 12, 8 GB; GeForce RTX 40 series / AMD RDNA 3 / Intel Arc B-Series
RAM	8 GB	16 GB
Free SSD space	128 GB	128 GB

Mac

Blizzard lists macOS 12, Apple M2 or ninth-generation Intel Coffee Lake, 8 GB RAM, and 128 GB free SSD space as minimums. Its recommended configuration lists macOS 15, Apple M4, and 16 GB RAM. The GPU row mixes Metal, chip, and memory wording; consult the original table for that qualification.

Prepare your installation

Use Game access to check account eligibility. After installation, User interface and accessibility explains announced display and control options. A visual preset is not evidence that an unsupported computer becomes supported, and minimum specifications do not promise a particular frame rate.